Chapter 37：Dungeon event mini-boss (1/2)

'Quit playin' games with my points~ Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na (with my points) Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, baby (my points)... My points...'

Ben was looking down at the blue Mystery Box, singing his modernized version of Backstreet Boys' ”Quit Playing Games” to the system in his head. He figured if he tried something new on occasion, at some point, he'd tickle this tsundere system on the right spot. After a deep breath, he unboxed it!

A few seconds later, he held a new system item.

'First, she attempted to turn me into a criminal. Now she wants to make me an addict.'

A green pack of cigarettes was in Ben's hands.

[Lucky Clove Cigarettes(Item, Fine) x20 - Temporarily increases the smoker's luck a little while smoking]

Ben didn't enjoy smoking, but he wouldn't catch lung cancer before the system killed him in 8 days. 'I'm not sure how useful a little luck is going to be, but there's 20 of them, so it's not bad.'

He walked back out to the main area of the bar and noticed Antonio was talking to a single girl on a black leather couch. 'Lucky guy. He found a girl alone.' Antonio was right earlier that very few girls were alone in bars. It made things more difficult because of dealing with groups, which Ben learned the hard way today.

He felt the cigarettes in his pockets. 'Well, not much time left, might as well try these and see what happens.' Ben went to the smoking section which was an open patio area at the back of the bar he'd spotted earlier. Upon entering it, he noticed there were a few chairs and heating lamps, but the biggest feature of this area was the open night sky, and of course, the ability to smoke. Smoking indoors was long prohibited in New York.

The loud music retreated to the sounds of light conversation…and system alerts.

[Dungeon Hidden Zone detected]

'Another hidden zone.' Ben shrugged. He didn't have a lighter so he asked a guy who was smoking to borrow one.

Receiving a lighter, Ben took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. Unlike normal cigarettes which were white or sometimes black, these cigarettes were emerald green. Ben lit one up and tasted it.

*Fooo*

When he exhaled the smoke, he was also surprised to find it was dark green. What's more is he expected to cough since he'd never smoked a cigarette before, but it wasn't harsh at all, almost like breathing in sweet air.

When Ben tried to return the lighter to the man, he discovered he had left, having gone inside and forgotten about it. At that moment, an alluring female voice floated over from behind him.

”Hey darlin', do you have a light?”

Ben turned around.

'...Whoa!' is all that came to his mind. If he had to describe this woman's appearance in one word…it would be provocative. Everything about her style was snappy and revealed so much skin that Ben almost made a loud gulp. She had chin-length white hair, with deep red eye shadow that caused her to stand out like a fox. A black low cut dress exposed her large cleavage; It lured Ben like a warm bed he had an urge to dive into.

This sudden beauty made him speechless for a second, but he soon regained his grip. Ben took out the lighter the guy forgot and lit up an open flame in front of the woman. As he looked at the lighter the guy forgot to retrieve, he wondered, 'Is this because of the lucky cigarette?'